The role of the snowpack on the fate of α-HCH in an atmospheric chemistry-transport model

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2943-2948

  Hansen, Kaj M ^a   Halsall, Crispin J ^b   Christensen, Jesper H ^a   Brandt, Jørgen ^a   Frohn, Lise M ^a   Geels, Camilla ^a   Skjøth, Carsten Ambelas ^a  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY-TRANSPORT MODEL; SNOW-AIR PARTITION COEFFICIENT;

AIR POLLUTION;

ALPHA HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; SNOW;

AIR POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HCH; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; SNOWPACK;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LATITUDE; MELTING POINT; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; SPRING; VOLATILIZATION; WINTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINDANE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SNOW;

EID: 42149165467     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es7030328     Document Type: Article

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